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Internet Explorer 8 - websites warned to prep for problems
News As part of this week's IE June security update for IE8 Beta 1, Microsoft introduced a new tag, 'IE+EmulateIE7' - which it is counting on to head off some of the incompatibilities the company is anticipating could occur,... [13 Jun 2008]
Microsoft smartens up for enterprise mobility
News Back on the enterprise track, Scott said beta testers of SCMDM had asked for a simplified mobility offering in order to cut down on the number of vendors they have to deal with. Microsoft has announced... [02 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Why would they spend time and effort on building a custom upgrade process for beta testers who know what they are getting in to when they installed the first release? It was a beta it's... [17 Jan 2008]
Microsoft refreshes Vista SP1
News Microsoft has made the latest version of Vista's SP1 release candidate available for download to the general public - after initially restricting it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week.... [14 Jan 2008]
Longhorn Server test to go public
News Ralston said Redmond feels it is on track with the product and is looking to get a broad array of testers to try out the new test version, Beta 3. The first two beta versions and other... [26 Apr 2007]
Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5219 (Community Technical Preview 1) Review
White Paper That build, which later went out to technical beta testers (and will reportedly be given to MSDN subscribers as well), represents an interesting but incomplete look at the progress Microsoft has made... [23 Nov 2006]
Microsoft issues near-final Vista build
News The release candidate is available to some technical beta and corporate testers now and will be made available next week to testers that are part of Microsoft's MSDN developer network.... [04 Sep 2006]
Microsoft puts out a better Vista beta
News It released the Beta 2 version of Windows Vista at a hardware conference in May and offered it to any interested testers in June. This build includes quality and performance improvements... [18 Jul 2006]
Microsoft delays Office 2007 over quality fears
News Microsoft said earlier this week that it had nearly reached its self-imposed limit for testers of the current Windows Vista beta, with plans to stop allowing new downloads after this Friday. Based on... [30 Jun 2006]
Vista beta goes public
News The company released Beta 2 last month to a more limited group of testers and had promised the broader test would come shortly. After months of limited testing, Microsoft late on... [08 Jun 2006]
Microsoft puts IE 7 to the test
News An even earlier beta, last July, was not released publicly and was made available only to select testers. To help spur downloads of IE 7 Beta 2, the company is offering... [25 Apr 2006]
Gates to bang supercomputing drum
News The new beta version will be public, unlike the one released at September's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, which was limited to about 1,600 testers. Bill Gates plans on Tuesday to... [15 Nov 2005]
Microsoft anti-spyware tool gets a makeover
News It will be released as an update to the current edition of Windows AntiSpyware, which has been available in a beta version since January. Microsoft had planned to deliver a Beta 2... [08 Nov 2005]
Microsoft shows off new Vista features
News Monday's release is intended to be the start of a wave of monthly updates to the Community Technology Preview (CTP), which Microsoft uses to gather feedback more quickly than would be possible from using only a traditional... [18 Oct 2005]
Microsoft reveals Longhorn Server to 5,000
News The first beta for the server version of Longhorn - expected to be named Windows Server 2007 - is not available for public download and is now rolling out to a group of 5,000 testers, a Microsoft... [08 Aug 2005]